Browsing by Author "Navakas, Francine"
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Administering Interdisciplinary and Innovative Programs: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of Arizona International College
Burkhardt, Paul (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006) -
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Web Design
Smith, Jeremy; Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)The theory of interdisciplinary studies can be understood to apply to the creation, not just the study, of a complex system; in this case, to the creation of a Web site. We examine the aspects of a Web site that make it ... -
An International Learning Community: Cultural Studies and Study Abroad in an Integrated Studies Program
Carmichael, Tami S.; Magness, Mark; Finney, Steven (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)This paper describes the inclusion of a cultural studies/language component and a study abroad experience into the University of North Dakota's successful and long-established Integrated Studies Program. These international ... -
Building a Culture of Learning in the 21st Century: Confronting Some Assumptions Preventing Us from Realizing the Promise of the Learning Paradigm
Bass, Randy (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)In the past 20 years some educators have given greater attention to a broadened conception of learning that highlights processes and a diversity of learning modalities. But higher education has yet to broadly embrace the ... -
Disciplinary Hegemony Meets Interdisciplinary Ascendancy: Can Interdisciplinary/Integrative Studies Survive, and, If So, How?
Henry, Stuart (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)This paper explores the increasing challenges and possible solutions to the sustainability of undergraduate interdisciplinary studies programs at public universities in North America. It analyzes the causes of the current ... -
Disciplining Interdisciplinarity: The Case for Textbooks
Repko, Allen (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)This essay makes the case for the disciplining of interdisciplinarity through the vehicle of textbooks. It draws upon (1) the 2003 Delphi survey of interdisciplinarians regarding opportunities and challenges to interdisciplinary ... -
Distinctive Challenges of Library-based Interdisciplinary Research and Writing: A Guide
Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)This article examines the current challenges of library-based interdisciplinary research and writing within the larger context of the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity. Based upon experience with college seniors ... -
Generating Integration and Complex Understanding: Exploring the Use of Creative Thinking Tools within Interdisciplinary Studies
Spooner, Marc (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)The following paper examines the links between the interdisciplinary process and the creative process and reviews the potential for the literature on creativity to propose and advance tools for promoting interdisciplinary ... -
Interdisciplinary Integration by Undergraduates
Newell, William H. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)This article examines whether it is feasible to teach interdisciplinary integration to undergraduates, especially the demanding conception of integration envisioned in my "A Theory of Interdisciplinary Studies." The 37 ... -
Interdisciplinary Work at the Frontier: An Empirical Examination of Expert Epistemologies
Mansilla, Veronica Boix (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)At the frontier of knowledge production, boundary-crossing takes place at a variety of disciplinary crossroads. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of work carried out at five major research institutions. ... -
Knowledge in Science and Innovation: A Review of Three Discourses on the Institutional and Cognitive Foundations of Knowledge Production
Bruun, Henrik; Toppinen, Aino (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)Modern society is said to be a knowledge society. Yet the academic discourse on the topics of learning and knowledge production is fragmented. In order to build bridges between different traditions, we review three ... -
Making Interdisciplinarity Work Through Translation and Analogical Thinking
McCormack, Brian (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)Analogies are often employed in a variety of contexts as a means of translating across disciplines or perspectives. Such translation fails when it is thought of merely as transversal exchange, focusing on similarity within ... -
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Interdisciplinarity
Szostak, Rick (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)While postmodernist and modernist approaches to a range of epistemological and methodological issues are well established, there is less explicit attention given to the contribution of interdisciplinarity to these same ... -
Profane Illumination, Genre, and the Integrative Study of Literature
Petrolle, Jean (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)In addition to questioning and crossing disciplinary boundaries, Integrative Studies scholars need to question and cross genre boundaries, reaching toward innovation in presentation as well as methodology. Scholarship, ... -
Reflections on the Wellsprings of Interdisciplinary Studies and Transformative Education
Minnich, Elizabeth Kmarck (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)To make the case for the importance of interdisciplinary studies, Minnich appeals to its wellsprings. She reflects on how her own field of philosophy encourages questioning of assumptions and methods; on her political ... -
Scholarship About Interdisciplinarity: Some Possibilities and Guidelines
Seabury, Marcia Bundy (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2004)This article proposes some guidelines for scholarship about interdisciplinarity. They are both inductively and deductively generated, drawing on a collaborative book project at the author’s institution as well as on ... -
Symbolic Variety and Cultural Integration, AIS National Conference Keynote Address, October 6, 2006
Dupre, Louis (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006)A unique combination of historical and cultural circumstances has contributed to two profound phenomena arising out of the early modern age: the emergence of cultural fragmentation and the revolutionary transition in ... -
Textual Revision, Stalinist Revisionism, and the Obligations of Memory: Situating Anna Akhmatova's Poem Without a Hero
Mager, Donald N. (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)Textual revision is the process a poet uses to bring a work's aesthetic aspirations closer to realization. Historical revision is the process by which historians bring narratives of the past into closer alignment with a ... -
The Integrated Self Crosses Borders Daily: Inviting the Mystical Realism of the Integrated Scholar
De la Garza, Sarah "Amira" (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)This call to self reflection arising out of the keynote presentation invites readers to encounter and participate in the practice of the integrated scholar--a path across borders and boundaries often considered "outside" ... -
The Role of Intuition in Interdisciplinary Insight
Welch IV, James (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2007)Intuition is a hotly debated topic in interdisciplinary scholarship, at the core of the conflict between the need for rigor as opposed to open-mindedness within interdisciplinary studies. To thoroughly investigate this ...